contemporary artists
Baxter&, Iain

* Note - The N.E. Thing Co. Ltd was a company founded in 1966 by Iain Baxter& and Ingrid Baxter.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007

  • Iain Baxter&: Television Works, Corkin Gallery, Toronto

2006

  • Iain Baxter&: Photographs etc., Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto

2006

  • Iain Baxter&: Television Works, Toronto International Art Fair

2005

2002

  • Iain Baxter/ N.E. Thing Co., Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2000

  • Iain Baxter: Vacuum Forms, 1965, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1999

  • Animal Preserve, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • N.E. Thing Co. Early Works, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver, N.E Thing Co., Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1997-98

  • Iain Baxter, Place, Products & Phenomenon, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON

1994

  • NO - KNOW, Lake Galleries, Toronto, ON

1991

  • Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON

1990

  • Iain Baxter, Some Early Photography, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON

1982

  • Baxter - Any choice Works, 1965 - 70, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

1981

  • Reflected Paris Beauty Spots, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France

1980

  • N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Polaroid Works, The Hague, The Netherlands

1971

  • N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1969

  • N.E. thing Co. Ltd., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1967

  • N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Centennial Projects, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1961

  • Yamada Contemporary Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Selected Solo Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions

2008

  • Iain Baxter, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB

2007

  • Passing Through: Iain Baxter& Photographs, 1958-1983, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
  • Passing Through: Iain Baxter& Photographs, 1958-1983, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

2006

2001

  • Iain Baxter - Stuff & Installation, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI

1999

  • Iain Baxter, Landscape Works, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB

1995

  • N.E. Thing Co., The Ubiquitous Concept, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON

1993

  • You are Now in the Middle of an N.E. Thing Co. Landscape, Fine Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

1988

  • White Winter Show, University of Calgary, AB

1987

  • Food for Thought, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB

1977

  • Another 2 projects: People/ Language & Eye Scream Restaurant, Vancouver Art Gallery,Vancouver, BC

1976

  • Iain Baxter: Celebration of the Body (‘76 Olympics), Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston, ON

1971

  • Radio and T.V. ads, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

1968

  • Piles, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

1966

  • Bagged Place, Exhibition/Installation/Environment, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Selected Group Museum and Public Exhibitions

2007

  • DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS I: Emulation of the administrative ethos in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s in Canada, Morris/Trasov Archive, N.E.Thing Co., Joyce Wieland, and other collaborators, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, PQ

  • Weather Report: Art & Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

2004

  • Food, Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France

2004

  • Portraits, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France

2003

  • Global Village, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, QC
  • My Petite Enterprise, Meymac, France

2002

  • The 1970’s: Art in Question, Bordeaux Art Museum, Bordeaux, France

2001

  • Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
  • The Power of Reflection, Saidy Bronfman Gallery, Montreal, QC
  • Sea of Forking Paths, International Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Appleton Museum of Art, Daytona Beach, FL
  • The Power of the Image, Museum of the Photo, Montreal, QC

2000

  • ABC’s of Pop Art, Florida State University, Miami, FL

1999

  • Out of this Century, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
  • New Acquisitions, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1997

  • Geographies, City Museum, Corsica, France, Curated by Christophe Domino

1995

  • Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965 - 1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1993

  • Reflecting Paradise, Expo ‘93, Canadian Pavillion, Taejon, Korea

1991

  • Projectionos, Castello di Rivara Gallery, Torino, Italy

1989

  • Picturing California: A Century of Photography, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1988

  • Opening Exhibition, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1987

  • From Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, ON

1985

  • In Grande Scale, tour: Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg

1983

  • Vancouver Art/Artists 1931 - 1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1982

  • Selections 1, Koln, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen

1981

  • Polaroid Works, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland

1980

  • Pluralities (19 Canadians), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1980

  • 10 Canadians in the 80’s, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

1978

  • 10 Canadian Artists, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

1972

  • Mail Art, Paris Biennial, Paris, France
  • Soft Ware Show, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1971

  • Situation Concepts, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria

1970

  • Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1969

  • 10th Sao Paolo Biennial (represented Canada in photo-print), Sao Paolo, Brazil 577,087, Seattle Art Museum, WA
  • Concept Art, Leverkusen City Museum, Germany

1968

  • Canadian Art - Aujourd’ hui, 14 Canadian artists, toured art galleries in major cities of Europe: Brussels, Rome, Paris, Lucerne (organized: National Gallery of Canada)
  • Soft Sculpture toured art galleries in major cities in the U.S.A.
  • Canadian Artists 68, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
  • 7th Biennial of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1965

  • 6th Biennial of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1963

  • 5th Biennial Canada Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON